Gore Farm - Week 7 (17/10/2024) 

Today Badger Class spent a sunny morning at Gore Farm, starting our very exciting seasonality project.

The children enjoyed naming their calves, learning about farming practices and how to care for animals, while hearing about how the land changes with the seasons. A fantastic, hands-on experience to connect with nature and understand local farming life. 

A big thank you to Mr and Mrs Casely for having us, we can't wait to see you for our next trip soon! 

Today, Badger Class have been using lots of the skills they have learnt in gymnastics this term to put together a routine in small groups. Next week we will be adding music. Some brilliant performances and excellent team work! 

Trent joined in the Hello Yellow campaign to raise awareness for children's mental health. Miss Morgan was super proud of Badger Class who had some very thoughtful discussions. 

A very muddy, but very happy autumn walk on Gore Farm! More photos to follow... 

Year 4 had a great time learning about solids, liquids and gases through a fun, hands on ice cream making experiment. They observed how a liquid mixture turned into a solid ice cream by freezing, while salt and ice helped speed up the process. Science has never been so tasty! 

Year 3 created stunning artwork inspired by Narnia - our most recent English text. Their paintings capture the beauty of snow-covered forests, icy landscapes, and the enchanting atmosphere of this magical story. Wonderful creativity on display!

Some of our lovely Badgers reading their thoughtful prayers at the Harvest Festival - held at Gore Farm. 

2023/2024

Badger Class enjoyed a wonderful day of learning at the Dorset Museum, Dorchester. The Stones, Bones and Iron workshop was a huge success. Throughout the day, the children applied their learning from across the year to become archaeologists and historians. In the afternoon, we designed our very own Gold Lozenge inspired by the early Bronze Age lozenge found at Clandon Barrow. 

Badger Class have all enjoyed finding out why 'Jungles are so wet and deserts so dry' this term. We have spent lots of time looking at maps and identifying climate zones, biomes and annual rainfall. It has been wonderful to hear the children talk about their geography skills and applying this knowledge to share how animals and plants grow in various biomes confidently. The children used their learning from our recent visit to Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens to develop their understanding further.

The children had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day 2024.

Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens 29.02.24

Badger and Fox Class went on an excellent trip to Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens. Thank you to the fabulous tour guides; we found out lots about the history of the gardens and why such tropical plants can grow in this part of Britain. Despite the wet weather, we didn't let this dampen our day. The children represented our school beautifully and asked excellent questions. We all hunted for specific species of tropical plants, discovered many Alice in Wonderland sculptures on our way round and even saw two beautiful golden pheasants.

We all enjoyed our most recent visit of our local area as part of our Seasonality Project with Gore Farm. This term, we have learnt all about the crop rotation in the fields. Each group has been assigned a field, which we will continue to monitor over the next few months. The fields this year include, oil seed rape -OSR, grass for turf, grass for animal feed and wheat.

Each visit has enabled us to experience all weather conditions. As you can see from these pictures, we experienced lots of rain; earlier in the week there was 20mm of rainfall on one day compared to February 2023 which only saw 7mm. We learnt how the local farmers keep our roads clear in this weather and the importance of staying safe. Another fabulous visit to Gore Farm - thank you Gore Farm. 

Badger class enjoyed their first visit to the local woodlands for our outdoor learning experience. This week, we spent time checking the site carefully and reminding ourselves of safety in the woodlands phrase, don't pick, don't lick, be careful with that stick and stop at the boundary.

The children then spent time carefully sketching out the area, looking for animal homes and nests, unusual patterns and shapes, whilst looking for signs of spring with wild garlic and snowdrops in abundance.

The children had a wonderful morning and we look forward to visiting each week to develop our team working and orienteering skills.

The children had a great morning creating their very own compass using paperclips, magnets and cork. 

This term, Badger class have learnt all about seasonal fruits and vegetables. We have developed our cutting, peeling and grating skills and followed a design brief to create a winter seasonal tart. This week, we created our very own seasonal tarts and had a great time taste testing and evaluating them. Well done Badger class - your seasonal tarts were all super. 

For maths day, Badger class had a great afternoon exploring all things maths related! The children were keen to develop their lego building skills, geometric colouring, coding along with problem and reasoning skills. A super afternoon everyone.

Week 3 - Spring Term 19.1.24

Badger class have had a fabulous week of learning. In Science, we explored and created different surfaces to answer how this may affect how a vehicle travels, thinking about both speed and comfort for a passenger. We also spent some time carefully using magnets to predict and identify which items are magnetic and non-magnetic in our classroom. We have learnt about scientists John McAdam and Isaac Newton. We are very impressed with how well the children are using scientific vocabulary in their explanations in class.

The children are all enjoying the new play ground equipment and are very excited for this area to extend later in the year.

Week 1 and 2 Spring Term - 12.1.24

Badger Class have enjoyed a fantastic week of learning. We have all really enjoyed discovering the wonderful items made from recycling and unwanted items in our class book, 'The Tin Forest' by Helen Ward. We created a super list of synonyms and look forward to showcasing these in our non-chronological reports.

In Art, we have explored some of the beautiful work of illustrator, Quentin Blake; we then created our own mini drawings using water colours. Later in the term we will be using air dry clay to create mini sculptures. 

We were also lucky to have a visit from the Dogs Trust. The children enjoyed learning all about being responsible owners and how to behave around dogs. Thank you for coming to visit our school.

Knowledge Organisers

These knowledge organisers inform and support our learning this term.